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What Comes Next After the 2025 Elections Read more here.

History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves.

Here’s what we all need to prepare for.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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folks, it’s literally the OP’s job as a news reporter to publish factual corrections like this. doing so helps protect the work and newsroom from legal liability down the road. no one here is implying one chemical weapon is better than the other

What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...

Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.”

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going to also give a shout-out to dv shelters, healthcare hikes and snap shutoff almost certainly means a spike in domestic violencee, they’re also hurting from lack of federal grants from the shutdown

Have never been more aware of how brittle and paper-thin fascist belief systems are than I have the past year. These guys tremble at a couple drops of rain.

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

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Who wants to use a credit card / go to a store when you can't tell if the form of payment you brought is accepted until you try it?

The best explanation here is: they know much of the American economy is more collusive than competitive, so consumers generally won't have a choice anyway.

Trump saying Biden didn’t know who he was pardoning is an accusation.

Trump saying Trump didn’t know who he was pardoning is an admission.

Plus, can we talk about the guy Trump pardoned?

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Any politician who votes to give more of our tax money to the grifters who have already gotten too much deserves to be primaried into the sun

I'd love to see a piece interviewing Republican voters who were promised the Republicans would enact a lot of conservative priorities and, as a bonus, also release the Epstein Files and now have a reality where Republicans shut down the whole House just to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

Only the incompetent tools in this administration would look to Spirit Airlines and think, yeah, yeah, we need some of that greatness over here.

Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" "Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

How DARE you insult Johnny five with this comparison! :p

Iirc (and could easily be wrong since understand congressional rules are a Cthulhu level of insanity) it would need to be a dispensation bill during a pro-forma recess. So needs one more R then we currently have for the Epstein file. That said which other R actually wants to be speaker right now?

This is an absolute must read. Perfect.

Wyoming (population of fewer than 600k people) has just as many Senators as California (population of close to 40 million people). That seems like quite a lot of influence.

Donate to Support Needed for Rent and Career Transition, organized by Matt Sheffield I never thought I'd be doing this before, but I could really use your hel… Matt Sheffield needs your support for Support Needed for Rent and Career Transition

Some personal news: I have been financially supporting a family member in a mental health crisis which has spiraled into a financial disaster.

I would like to keep doing progressive activism but I can no longer pay rent for myself and my two kids.

Please help if you can. Thank you very much.

Who knew big sports plays could trigger second puberty.

Yeah, there's no way you could ever find any Christians who were involved with the pharmaceutical industry, or the spread of feminism, or the rise of pornography, or any of the other antisemitic conspiracies she's pushing here.

Nope, Jews Are To Blame For Everything I Don't Like™

If you meet someone and they tell you they're part of the Washington Post editorial board, be sure to pat them on the shoulder, tell them to hang in there and maybe they'll get a respectable job someday.

For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago

For Americans: Bread lines

Non-zoomed in pic for those wondering if this is real. Also that scar bump about 1/4 of the way down his ear is likely the bullet scar though I am a bit surprised it didn't leave a larger bubble/dot scar.

Altered in that it has been zoomed in to crop out the other person in the picture I guess, but it's from the Getty archive so it's a legit picture.

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